Upcycled Zippered Tote Bag

It's been long pending - a tote bag for my MIL...

She has been asking me to make a bag for her with an inside zippered pocket for quite sometime now. But as usual life happens and time flies, it was really difficult for me to spend time on sewing the bag.

One day, while clearing up our closet I found my husband's old kurta that he had asked me to give away. Since the kurta looked brand new I did not feel like parting with it. That is when it struck me to make the bag out of it. So I used one of my MIL's old sarees and the kurta as lining along with the usual rice bag for stabilising (and the inside zipper).

I found this amazing tutorial on the internet that I followed to make the tote bag, along with using my own ideas for making the inside zippered pocket and bag straps. Bag with Zip

Baby Memory Quilt

In continuation to my "Pouches post", I had an order for baby memory quilt by the same girl who had asked for the pouches.

She gave me all her little boy's onesies that he had outgrown to convert into a quilt. 

It wasn't very easy to work on it because of my very tight work-home-child schedule. We were also travelling to our country and upon our return she was going on vacation in 3 days. So I had to hurry up to finish it although we were all severely jet-lagged and exhausted.

The onesies prints were mostly of the same size, so cutting them was pretty quick and consistent. But then there were also a couple that had larger prints, so the quilt top needed lot of adjustment from pieces here and there to make it look uniform. 

 

I wish I had more time to plan and work on it, maybe that way I could have done a better job.. but oh well! I only hope her family liked it :(